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Singapore presentations by Dr. Barbara Watson Andaya
![Left side Dr. Barbara Andaya talking into a microphone with short brown hair wearing glasses and orange long-sleeve shirt with mustard yellow scarf with pink flower on right side. Right contains snapshots of conferences in Singapore.](http://manoa.hawaii.edu/asianstudies/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Andaya-at-ISEA.-Feb2017-300x300.png)
In February, Professor Barbara Watson Andaya was a presenter and keynote speaker at two conferences in Singapore.
On February 7, 2017, she gave a presentation to a workshop, ‘Circulating the Bay of Bengal Miraculously: Translating Wonder and Travel in South and Southeast Asia’ at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. Her presentation was titled ‘Underwater Kingdoms, Sea Creatures and Saintly Miracles: Religious Connections and the Mysterious Ocean.’
On February 9, she gave the keynote address for a conference on ‘Gender Perspectives on Asian Labour Migration within Colonial Asia’ held at the Asia Research Institute. Her presentation was titled “Goodbye darling, I have to get back to the ship”: Sailors and Prostitutes in Asia’s Port Cities.